Chocolate gin is here to ruin all our Dry January ambitions

Anyone hoping to give up alcohol this January might want to look away now, because a drink bringing together two of our favourite things has been invented: chocolate gin.

This is not a drill, people. As The Metroreports, Belgian chocolate makers Xolato have only gone and ruined all our chances of avoiding booze until the end of the month after creating a gin lover's ultimate tipple.

Its makers claim their creation, X-Gin, not only tastes sweet and smooth but also acts as a natural aphrodisiac... We're sold!

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Stieven Victor, director of Xolato, told the Martini Whisperer: 'We wanted to make something different from everything that was out there and were already into chocolate with our Belgian chocolate brand Xolato.

'So we decided to try if a cocoa infused gin could work. Our first thought was that it would taste horrible. We ended up with more than 20 different versions and found something really delicate and special about the final version.'

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